Writing

Character Development

Series Bible

Maintain characters, locations, and detailed research for your entire series.

Research

Keep all the information, images, timeline details, and links together in one easy-to-reference place.

Bonus Tools

StoryShop comes with story templates, Character DNA questions and plans for dozens more features in the works.

Made by writers, for writers.

The storytellers at Sterling & Stone have built their livelihoods on producing great stories, fast. StoryShop helps them keep track of their worlds, plan their stories, and focus on writing.

Sean Platt

(Beats Master)

After 100 books, we needed to streamline our process. I dreamed about what might be possible, but never imagined those dreams were only the beginning.

Johnny B. Truant

(Mad Scientist)

I get lost trying to remember the details of the worlds I create: who knows whom, what does this character look and speak like, what are the rules surrounding XYZ in my story world? StoryShop solves all those problems.

David W. Wright

(Tortured Artist)

Such easy, intuitive access to world and character details without ever leaving the app – it’s the game changer I’ve been waiting for in story creation.

The StoryShop Plans

Have no fear…

Try StoryShop risk free — you can view or export your work any time, even if you’ve cancelled your subscription. No matter what investment you’re ready to make, your story is safe with StoryShop.

$9.99

Per Month

Features Included In This Subscription

Story Writing

Write your book from start to finish or scene by scene, and rearrange until your story sings.

WriterOnly:

Up to 3 Stories

Writer +Planner:

Unlimited Stories!

Up to 3 Stories

Unlimited Stories!

Story Export

Save snapshots and export your book for formatting as a print or eBook.

WriterOnly:

Writer +Planner:

World Building

Keep detailed images, blueprints, maps, and descriptions of your world at your fingertips.

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Character Profiles

Develop backstory and keep track of relationships with in-depth social-media-style profiles. Use Character DNA to get to know them even more.

WriterOnly:

Writer +Planner:

Story Elements

Scout locations, collect blueprints and maps, and keep all your research at your fingertips for every series.

WriterOnly:

Writer +Planner:

Beats Export

Export your work in OPML or TXT format for import into other applications.

WriterOnly:

Writer +Planner:

Pricing

WriterOnly:

FREE!

Writer +Planner:

Starting at $8.25/mo**recurring subscription, billed in one annual payment

FREE!

Starting at $8.25/mo**recurring subscription, billed in one annual payment

Once Upon a Time

The storytellers at Sterling & Stone Story Studio know all about writing great stories, quickly. They’ve published over 10 million words – 100 books – since 2011. Like most modern indie writers, they wanted to write faster while continuing to improve their craft and to weave deeper, more meaningful stories and series. When they started looking for the perfect way to keep track of their many story worlds, nothing quite fit. So they decided to design the tools they needed.

A dream comes true

Sterling & Stone thrives on sweeping, detailed story worlds. But remembering all the details and jumping from world to world and book to book started to create challenges. We dreamed of one place to track everything within each series – characters, locations, timelines, and plots.

We sat down and dreamed up a list of everything we needed – and everything we wanted. With the development team in place, we quickly got to work designing the perfect app to help writers spend more time in their stories and less time wrangling research.

And as we started to see the application come together, we knew we needed to share it with our community of indie authors.

We wanted to share it with you.

What StoryShop is

Using StoryShop isn’t about diving in and learning a new app. Quite the opposite. When you step into StoryShop, you’re entirely focused on your world and the characters who inhabit it.

StoryShop’s Character DNA tool helps you figure out what motivates them, why they think they way they do, and how they react to the world around them.

And StoryShop offers you the tools to bring the world around them to life, building lush forests, stark moonscapes, or thriving cities. Create an ornate palace fit for a king, a run-down tenement flat for a determined heroine to overcome her circumstances, or even a simple, ordinary suburban home that hides a dark secret. With StoryShop, you can create anything you can imagine.

And then you can write limitless stories and series within each world, with reference materials available at the click of a mouse, regardless of which story you’re dreaming in.

How StoryShop works for you

StoryShop values your personal style and your writing priorities.

It keeps your details organized, but it’s not prescriptive. You can dive deep into an individual character’s background or travel across your expansive universe, and StoryShop will keep what you need at your fingertips as you pour out your ideas.

If you prefer to pants your stories, you can fill in the details as you learn them, creating character sheets and outlines as you go and helping you put it all in order as you edit. If you know you’ll write faster with a solid plan, then you can invest your time creating that detailed outline in StoryShop. It’s a breeze to create scenes (we call them beats), and then move them around, reorganizing chapters to make your story more dramatic or compelling.

And whenever you’re ready to start writing (whether that’s Day 1 or after your world is totally fleshed out), StoryShop allows you to seamlessly reference your story details, research, or outline without ever breaking your workflow.

With its clean, modern, intuitive interface, you won’t spend weeks (or hundreds of dollars) learning how to use another new application. With StoryShop, you can dive in and create your first character, location, outline, or chapter in seconds.

StoryShop is made possible by all our fantastic Kickstarter backers and...

Take Your Writing Global with Kobo

Do you have a story to tell? Are you an author with a bestseller just waiting to be discovered? Want to reach out to millions of readers in over 190 countries? Do you own the digital rights to your work?

Then have we got the tool for you. Kobo Writing Life is the one-stop, do-it-yourself publishing portal.

This online community hosts articles about both the craft and business of writing.

Take your books further with Draft2Digital

StoryShop is a pretty sweet tool for helping you plot, plan, and parse-out your book! Once you have your words on the page, Draft2Digital is the next step.

One absolutely, lifetime-free account gives you the tools to go from page to eBook to retailers all over the planet—all in about 10 minutes. After all, we have books to write: We don’t have time to waste on details like eBook conversion, meta-data insertion, front and end matter creation, pricing per region, and distribution to all the best digital retailers.

That’s what D2D is for.

And with D2D you get a gorgeous and easy user dashboard that lets you track sales, update book content and pricing, even get selective about who you distribute to—you can even go direct if you like. We’ll still convert your manuscript for free to make uploading to awesome vendors like Kobo that much easier!

Give us your prose, your little darlings, your well-crafted and huddled masses of dialogue and narrative, and we’ll give you the world. That’s a fair trade.

Just like StoryShop, Draft2Digital is here to help you build and grow your author career. Now get out there and blast out some bestsellers. We’ll be here when you’re ready.